Body / Head, the new duo project of Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon, played a set at Chinatown art gallery Space 1026 last night. Fun facts discovered per Bleeding Rainbow’s Instagram: Gordon and BR’s Rob Garcia play the same guitar, and Body / Head’s Bill Nace borrowed a Fender Twin amp from BR’s Al Creedon for the show. Check out photos from the set in the gallery above.

With this new band, Gordon and Nace dabble in long-form, expressionistic guitar playing that ebbs and flows in ambient textures, turns unexpectedly violent with aggressive feedback, then recedes back into drone, with Gordon adding her trademark spoken-sung vocals. Think of her song “Contre Le Sexisme” from Sonic Youth’s vastly underrated 1998 album A Thousand Leaves, or the early hit (is “hit” the right word?) “Making the Nature Scene.” Live, Body / Head compliments their show with projected visuals (which you can see in the video below), meaning the crowd at Space 1026 next month is in for a multi-sensory experience. More information on the show can be found at the WXPN Concert Calendar.

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